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GECC vs. RMT, TYG, EVN, MVF, MCI, SAR, MYN, LEO, HQL, and KTF

Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), Saratoga Investment (SAR), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), and DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Great Elm Capital vs.

Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) and Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and risk.

Great Elm Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Royce Micro-Cap Trust.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Great Elm Capital$9.63M12.78$25.33M$0.4026.65
Royce Micro-Cap Trust$66.96M6.56N/AN/AN/A

38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Great Elm Capital received 151 more outperform votes than Royce Micro-Cap Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.25% of users gave Royce Micro-Cap Trust an outperform vote while only 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Great Elm CapitalOutperform Votes
237
65.65%
Underperform Votes
124
34.35%
Royce Micro-Cap TrustOutperform Votes
86
68.25%
Underperform Votes
40
31.75%

Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Great Elm Capital pays out 370.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Great Elm Capital has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Great Elm Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

In the previous week, Great Elm Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Royce Micro-Cap Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Great Elm Capital and 0 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust. Royce Micro-Cap Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Great Elm Capital's score of 1.46 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Great Elm Capital Positive
Royce Micro-Cap Trust Very Positive

Great Elm Capital has a net margin of 15.00% compared to Royce Micro-Cap Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Great Elm Capital's return on equity of 11.60% beat Royce Micro-Cap Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Great Elm Capital15.00% 11.60% 4.25%
Royce Micro-Cap Trust N/A N/A N/A

Summary

Great Elm Capital beats Royce Micro-Cap Trust on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GECC vs. The Competition

MetricGreat Elm CapitalInvestment advice IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$123.06M$11.32B$11.50B$8.39B
Dividend Yield14.06%24.42%5.45%4.10%
P/E Ratio15.4539.1222.4819.71
Price / Sales12.787.7627.28117.54
Price / CashN/A17.7117.6234.62
Price / Book0.823.732.794.50
Net Income$25.33M$419.40M$1.04B$248.18M
7 Day Performance1.23%-2.89%-0.02%0.23%
1 Month Performance6.49%7.29%6.70%12.39%
1 Year Performance4.51%7.54%537.71%7.07%

Great Elm Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GECC
Great Elm Capital
1.776 of 5 stars
$10.66
flat
N/A+3.3%$123.06M$9.63M15.45N/APositive News
RMT
Royce Micro-Cap Trust
N/A$8.81
flat
N/A-11.0%$446.51M$66.96M0.00N/APositive News
TYG
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure
N/A$41.41
-0.1%
N/A+16.2%$445.78M$214.33M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
EVN
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.33
flat
N/A-0.2%$409.76M$38.57M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MVF
BlackRock MuniVest Fund
N/A$6.77
-0.4%
N/A-6.6%$408.33M$11.04M0.00147,000Positive News
MCI
Barings Corporate Investors
N/A$19.10
+0.9%
N/A+9.9%$387.71M$37.92M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
SAR
Saratoga Investment
1.5643 of 5 stars
$24.59
+0.8%
$24.58
0.0%
+4.1%$377.83M$42.10M9.923,211Positive News
MYN
BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund
N/A$9.63
flat
N/A-8.9%$368.95M$1.69M0.00N/APositive News
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$5.88
-0.7%
N/A-3.5%$366.27M$73.46M0.00147,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
HQL
Abrdn Life Sciences Investors
N/A$12.46
+1.1%
N/A-10.4%$359.75M$86.69M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
Insider Trade
KTF
DWS Municipal Income Trust
N/A$9.08
-1.2%
N/A-5.9%$355.69M$35.07M0.00N/AEx-Dividend

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This page (NASDAQ:GECC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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